"Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!"

-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Airplane Quotes #Airports Quotes #Land Quotes

“sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.”
“When you want something very dearly, you make the time.”
“Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.”
“It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Oct 19, 2011
“One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.”

Source : Ron Luciano, David Fisher (1984). “Strike Two”, G K Hall & Company
“People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.”
“Age is merely a suit, and not a new dress.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The final reward of the dead - to die no more”

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